Lu‘isa Palauni Kongaika's Dream of the Interview Behind the Stone Door (Tonga, 1946)

Lu‘isa Palauni Kongaika and her husband Viliami served a proselyting mission in Tonga in 1946. Viliami was sweet-natured and lighthearted; Lu‘isa described herself at that time as headstrong and argumentative, with a habit of scolding and an angry tongue that had become a burden both to her husband and to their missionary labors. During that mission she had a dream that changed her life. In it, Tongan mission president Emile C. Dunn came to her and invited her to accompany him and his family to a special conference where the Lord himself would be present. When they arrived she beheld a high, massive stone shaped like a door, and it was made known to her that Jesus Christ was behind it, waiting to interview each one personally. She walked happily and confidently forward for her interview — but the Savior looked sternly at her and told her that with all her other fine qualities, her constant nagging and ridicule were a disgrace, and turned her from his presence. She howled and pleaded until her sobs woke her. She immediately begged her husband's pardon — she had been, as she said, a bully who had taken advantage of his sweet disposition. "From that moment until this very day," she testified decades later, "I have been a changed person with regard to my husband, feeling much love for him and being positive and supportive."